Murphy
Murphy is an Irish surname.
Origins and variants
The surname is a variant of two Irish surnames: "Ó Murchadha"/"Ó Murchadh", and "Mac Murchaidh"/"Mac Murchadh" derived from the Irish personal name "Murchadh", which meant sea-warrior or sea-battler.It is said of Murrough as he entered the thick of the fight and prepared to assail the foreign invaders, the Danes, when they had repulsed the Dal-Cais, that 'he was seized with a boiling terrible anger, an excessive elevation and greatness of spirit and mind. A bird of valour and championship rose in him, and fluttered over his head and on his breath.
In modern Irish, "Ó Murchú", rather than "Ó Murchadha", is used.
"Murphy" is the most common surname in Ireland, the fourteenth most common surname in Northern Ireland, and the fifty-eighth most common surname in the United States.
People with the surname
Men
- Aaron James Murphy, New Zealand actor
- Alex Murphy
- Anthony Murphy , English cricketer
- Arthur Murphy
- Audie Murphy, American war hero and actor
- Austin J. Murphy, Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Barnes Murphy, former Gaelic footballer
- Bos Murphy, New Zealand boxer
- Brian Murphy
- Buddy Murphy, Australian professional wrestler
- Byron Murphy, American football player
- Calvin Murphy, American retired basketball player
- Charles Murphy
- Chris Murphy , United States Senator from Connecticut
- Ciarán Murphy, Irish T.D.
- Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
- Colin Murphy
- Colm Murphy, Irish alleged suspect in the Omagh bombing
- Conor Murphy, Sinn Féin politician in Northern Ireland
- Dale Murphy, American retired baseball player
- Dale D. Murphy, professor at Georgetown University
- Daniel Murphy
- Darren Murphy, Irish footballer
- Darren Murphy
- Darren Murphy, bassist with the British punk rock/post-punk band Wasted Youth
- Daryl Murphy, Irish football player
- David Murphy
- Derek Murphy, American rapper better known as Sadat X
- Dick Murphy, American retired Republican politician
- Donald E. Murphy, American Republican politician
- Donnie Murphy, American baseball player
- Eddie Murphy
- Edward Murphy
- Elliott Murphy, American singer/songwriter
- Erik Murphy, American–Finnish basketball player
- Everett J. Murphy, politician
- Francis Murphy
- Frank Murphy
- Fred Murphy
- Gary Murphy Irish mathematician and inventor of the Dyson shirt dryer
- Geoff Murphy, New Zealand filmmaker
- Geoffrey Mostyn Murphy, Australian boxer, better known as Tommy Burns
- Glen Murphy, British actor
- George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and Republican Senator
- Henry Murphy
- Isaac Murphy, Republican Governor of Arkansas
- Isaac Burns Murphy, American Hall-of-Fame jockey
- Jack Murphy
- Jacob Murphy, English footballer
- James Murphy, people named James or Jimmy
- Jim Murphy
- John Murphy
- Joseph Murphy
- Josh Murphy, English footballer
- Kevin Murphy
- Lambert Murphy, American operatic tenor
- Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr., American singer, winner of season 6 of America's Got Talent
- Larry Murphy
- Lawrence Murphy
- Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and jurist
- Loren E. Murphy, American jurist
- Marc Murphy, Australian rules footballer
- Mark Murphy
- Martin Murphy
- Matt Murphy
- Maurice Murphy , American actor
- Michael Murphy, people named Michael, Mick or Mike
- Mickey Murphy, Gaelic footballer
- Nicholas Murphy, Gaelic footballer
- Nicholas Daniel Murphy, Irish politician from Cork, Member of Parliament 1865–1880
- Nick Murphy
- Oakes Murphy, two-time Governor of Arizona Territory
- Pat Murphy
- Patricia Murphy
- Patrick Murphy
- Paul Murphy
- Peter Murphy
- Phil Murphy, people named Phil, Philip or Phillip
- Richard Murphy, people named Richard, some nicknamed Dick
- Robert Murphy, people named Robert, Rob, Bob or Bobby
- Roger P. Murphy, American legislator and jurist
- Ryan Murphy
- Ryan Murphy, American television writer, director and producer
- Scott Murphy, American entrepreneur and politician
- Scott Murphy, a programmer behind the Space Quest series
- Sean Murphy
- Shaun Murphy
- Shawn Murphy
- Stephanie J. Murphy, American veterinary scientist
- Stephen Murphy
- Sydney Murphy, Vincentian retired cricketer
- Timothy Murphy, people named Timothy or Tim
- Thomas Murphy, people named Thomas or Tom
- Trent Murphy, outside linebacker in the National Football League; played for the Washington Redskins and Buffalo Bills
- Tristan Murphy, King Gaylord of Ashbourne
- Troy Murphy, power forward for the Boston Celtics
- Vincent B. Murphy, NYS Comptroller 1925–1926
- Vincent J. Murphy, Mayor of Newark 1941–1949
- Wendell H. Murphy, American politician
- William Murphy,
- Yale Murphy, American baseball player
- Yo Murphy, American former football player
Women
- Brittany Murphy, American actress
- Dervla Murphy, travel writer
- Carolyn Murphy, American model
- Diana E. Murphy, American judge
- Donna Murphy, American Tony Award-winning actress
- Erin Murphy
- Gail C. Murphy, Canadian computer scientist
- Gillian Murphy, principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre
- Jess Murphy, New Zealand-born chef based in Galway, Ireland
- Julie Murphy , Welsh singer
- Julie Murphy, American novelist
- Kelly Murphy, American author and illustrator
- Margaret Mary Healy Murphy, American Catholic nun
- Mary Murphy
- Róisín Murphy, Irish electronica singer, songwriter, and producer
- Shaun Murphy, a.k.a. Stoney, American singer
- Tammy Murphy, American banker
Fictional characters
- Murphy Cooper, in Interstellar_
- Captain Murphy from the Adult Swim animated series Sealab 2021
- Alex James Murphy, the police officer who became RoboCop
- Alexis "Lex" Murphy, in the film Jurassic Park
- Frank, Sue, Bill, Kevin, and Maureen Murphy from the Netflix original F Is for Family
- "Bleeding Gums" Murphy, on the cartoon TV series The Simpsons
- Bridey Murphy, historical character in a hypnotic regression case detailed in Bernstein's The Search for Bridey Murphy
- Colin Murphy, in the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Connor Murphy, from the musical Dear Evan Hansen
- Eric Murphy, in the HBO series Entourage
- Hank Murphy, in the TV series Sullivan & Son
- John Murphy, in the TV series The 100
- Karrin Murphy, in Jim Butcher's novel series The Dresden Files
- Milo Murphy, in the American animated TV series Milo Murphy's Law
- Professor Michael Murphy, the protagonist in the Babylon Rising series by Dr Tim LaHaye
- Randle Patrick McMurphy, one of the main characters in Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Ray Murphy, birth name of Gino Esposito, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Sean Murphy, in the HBO TV drama series Oz
- Susan Murphy, aka Ginormica, one of the main protagonists of the film Monsters vs. Aliens
- Sergeant Murphy, a fictional character in the Richard Scarry books